“The Girl with Kaleidoscope Eyes is Handler at his best, drawing us close to his hero and the hero’s beloved pooch, Lulu, while introducing us to some of the scuzziest Hollywood characters this side of James Ellroy.”
—CTNews.com
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Copyright
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
THE MAN WHO COULDN’T MISS. Copyright © 2018 by David Handler. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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FIRST EDITION
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Handler, David, 1952– author.
Title: The man who couldn’t miss : a Stewart Hoag mystery / David Handler.
Description: First edition. | New York, NY : William Morrow Paperbacks, 2018. | Series: Stewart Hoag mysteries ; 10
Identifiers: LCCN 2018015440| ISBN 9780062412850 (trade paper) | ISBN 9780062412874 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Hoag, Stewart (Fictitious character)—Fiction. | Ghostwriters—Fiction. | GSAFD: Mystery fiction.
Classification: LCC PS3558.A4637 M292 2018 | DDC 813/.54—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018015440
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ISBN: 978-0-06-241285-0 (paperback)
Digital Edition AUGUST 2018 ISBN: 978-0-06-241287-4
Version 07072018
Print ISBN: 978-0-06-285114-7 (library edition hardcover)
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